Eryk

I use a lot of software, I have a lot of opinions, and I have a lot of peeves with mainstream software and proprietary formats. Let's have at it, then!

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  IrfanView

  Free for personal use by Irfan Skiljan |

  • Windows

  Fast and compact image viewer/converter trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. Many supported file formats and features. Features included: multi-language support, Thumbnail option, Painting, s ...

  Categories: Office, Photos & Graphics Tags: pdf, convert, screenshot, image-viewer, ocr, jpeg, resize, png, jpg, gif +9 more, pdf-editor, image-resize, scanning, screenshot-utility, batch-renamer, batch-conversion, dxf, gif-animation, extensible
  
  

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  Foxit Reader

  Free by Foxit Software |

  • iPhone
  • Windows, Win Mobile
  • Linux
  • S60

  Foxit Reader is a free and light-weight PDF document viewer for Windows. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.Notable features include:Annotation tool: draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make n ...

  Category: Office Tags: Portable, pdf, document, pdf-viewer, pdf-reader, acrobat
  
  

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  Skype

  Free with limited functionality by Skype Limited |

  • Mac, iPhone, iPad
  • Windows, Win Mobile
  • Linux
  • Android
  • Java Mobile
  • S60
  • Blackberry

  Skype is a proprietary software application that offers free Skype-to-Skype calls and low-cost local, national and international calls to both traditional land-line telephones and mobile phones. Additional features inclu ...

  Category: Social Tags: Portable, voip, instant-messenger, phone, voice, call, screen-sharing +4 more, telephone, video-conferencing, voip-tunnelling, proprietary-voip
  
  

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  Alcohol 120%

  Commercial by Alcohol-Soft |

  • Windows

  Alcohol 120%, is a powerful Windows CD and DVD burning software that makes it easy to create backups of DVDs* and CDs. In addition, the program lets you store your most used CDs as images on your computer, so you can cal ...

  Category: Burning & Ripping Tags: dvd, movie, media, iso, recording, burning, nrg
  
  

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  DAEMON Tools

  Free with limited functionality by DT Soft Ltd |

  • Windows

  DAEMON Tools Lite is an advanced application for Microsoft Windows which provides one of the best optical media emulation in the industry. You can mount *.mdx, *.mds/*.mdf, *.iso, *.b5t, *.b6t, *.bwt, *.ccd, *.cdi, *.cue ...

  Tags: Portable, dvd, iso, emulation, mount, virtual-disk, mount-image, mount-iso +4 more, mounting, disc-image, cd-emulator, dvd-emulator
  
  

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  Media Player Classic

  Open Source by Gabest (Guliverkli) |

  • Windows

  Media Player Classic was designed to look just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but with many additional new features. It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo su ...

  Category: Video Tags: video, movie, media, media-player, dvd-player, subtitle-support
  
  

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  Notepad++

  Open Source by Don HO |

  • Windows

  Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures ...

  Category: Development Tags: editor, development, text-editor, programming, notepad, code-editor +1 more, developer-tools
  
  

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  OpenOffice.org - Writer

  Open Source by Oracle |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux

  Writer, part of the Open Office suite, is an open-source word processor. It supports the ISO standard Open Document Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office 97-2003 format ...

  Category: Office Tags: office, word-processor, word, writer, openoffice-suite, open-office +1 more, star-office
  
  

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  Last.fm

  Free with limited functionality by Last.fm Ltd. |

  • Mac, iPhone
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Online
  • Android

  Last.fm is a music community website that offers personalized internet radio, using a recommendation system called "Audioscrobbler" to build a detailed profile of users based on their music tastes and interests ...

  Category: Audio & Music Tags: music, streaming, radio, internet-radio, radio-stations
  
  

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  foobar2000

  Free by Peter Pawlowski |

  • Windows

  foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

  Categories: Audio & Music, Burning & Ripping Tags: Portable, Plugin / Add-on, music, audio, mp3, music-player, plugin +12 more, audio-player, audio-converter, music-library, mp3-player, minimalistic, music-collection, audio-cd-ripper, full-unicode, gapless-playback, auto-tagger, dvd-audio, dvd-a
  
  

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  uTorrent (µTorrent)

  Free with limited functionality by BitTorrent Inc |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux

  µTorrent (a.k.a uTorrent or MicroTorrent) is a lightweight BitTorrent client that includes standard features such as bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT. Additionally, µT ...

  Category: File Sharing Tags: Portable, p2p, torrent, bittorrent, torrent-client, bittorrent-client +2 more, peer-to-peer, microtorrent
  
  

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  Google Chrome

  Free by Google |

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  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Android

  A free web browser developed by Google with a focus on speed and minimalism. Chrome offers fast start-up and web page loading, sports a minimalist user interface, automatically updates in the background, and offers synci ...

  Category: Internet Browsers Tags: Portable, browser, web-browser, extensions, internet-browser, chromium +1 more, bookmark-sync-own
  
  

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  7-Zip

  Open Source by Igor Pavlov |

  • Windows
  • Linux

  7-zip is an open source Windows utility for manipulating archives. Supported formats: * Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR * Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, R ...

  Category: File Management Tags: file-manager, zip, encryption, archive, rar, compression, unzip, unpack +8 more, file-compression, file-archiver, tar, 7zip, archiving, expansion, decompression, file-utilities
  
  

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  WinRAR

  Free with limited functionality by RARLAB (Alexander Roshal) |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux

  WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. You ...

  Category: File Management Tags: WINE, zip, archive, rar, archive-manager, unpack, unrar, winrar, rar-file +1 more, win-rar
  
  

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  Paint.NET

  Free by dotPDN LLC |

  • Windows

  Paint.NET is a free image and photo editing software. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An a ...

  Category: Photos & Graphics Tags: Portable, image, photo, image-editor, image-editing, photo-editor +8 more, photo-editing, paint, photoshop, graphic, webdesign, graphic-design, edit-photo, paint.net
  
  

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